Character Quotes by C.S. Lewis

21 Character quotes by C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis blends faith, morality, and imagination when he speaks of character. Across 21 reflections, he offers a balanced view that resonates with both spiritual seekers and literary lovers.

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“You cannot be kind unless you have all the other virtues.”

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“Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the…

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“God has given to His works His own character of emeth; they are watertight, faithful, reliable, not at all vague or phantasmal.”

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“It is not excess of thought but defect of fertile and generous emotion that marks them out. Their heads are no bigger…

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“You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society. That is why we must…

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“A great human philosopher nearly let our secret out when he said that where virtue is concerned, "Experience is the mother of…

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“He shows much more of Himself to some people than to others-not because He has favourites, but because it is impossible for…

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“By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to…

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“But do not let us go too fast here. The Moral Law does not give us any grounds for thinking that God…

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“Plato rightly taught that virtue is one. You cannot be kind unless you have all the other virtues. If, being cowardly, conceited,…

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“In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of…

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“He sees as well as you do that courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue…

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“but you must keep on shoving all the virtues outward till they are finally located in the circle of fantasy, and all…

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“The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back, time after time, to the old simple principles which…

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“We may legitimately hope that among the impulses which arise in minds thus emptied of all ‘rational’ or ‘spiritual’ motives, some will…

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“The Moral Law isn't any one instinct or any set of instincts: it is something which makes a kind of tune (the…

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“we continue to clamour for those very qualities we are rendering impossible. You can hardly open a periodical without coming across the…

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“There is either a warning or an encouragement here for every one of us. If you are a nice person—if virtue comes…

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“If we promoted justice and charity among men, we should be playing directly into the Enemy's hands; but if we guide them…

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“The process which, if not checked, will abolish Man goes on apace among Communists and Democrats no less than among Fascists. The…

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“For me the real evil of masturbation would be that it takes an appetite which, in lawful use, leads the individual out…

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“We use a most unfortunate idiom when we say, of a lustful man prowling the streets, that he "wants a woman". Strictly speaking, a…

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“Then two wonders happened at the same moment. One was that the voice was suddenly joined by other voices; more voices than you could…

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“Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.…

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“Laugh and fear not, creatures. Now that you are no longer dumb and witless, you need not always be grave. For jokes as well…

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“When two humans have lived together for many years it usually happens that each has tones of voice and expressions of face which are…

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